Cloud-native and hybrid production promises agility, scalability, and operational efficiency—but realizing that promise requires more than just shifting infrastructure. It demands access to the specialized tools and partner technologies that address complex, domain-specific media challenges—whether in compliance, audio processing, quality control, graphics, or format conversion. Industry trusted tools must easily work together, dynamically and in real time, to support modern workflows across compressed and uncompressed media. This paper introduces an architectural approach that enables partner-native workflows through a real-time, low-latency media mesh based on shared memory and modular microservices.